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The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ont since our last report. The following official dispatch from General Lee was received at the War Department at a late hour on Monday nighf the front of Gen. Anderson on the centre. Respectfully, &c., R. E. Lee, General There was some skirmishing on the lines yesterut. Gen. Grant sent a flag of truce bearing a communication for Gen. R. E. Lee, proposing that in the intervals of battles squads of unarmed mthis flag, professed to be actuated alone by motives of humanity. Gen. Lee at once replied, declining it is said to accede to a proposition onfederate dead unburied or wounded unattended to between the lines Gen. Lee denied. This morning Lieut, Gen. Grant sent another flag, sayd squads of his men between the lines for the purposes indicated. Gen. Lee at once notified Gen. Grant that he had misconstrued his letter. at 2½ P. M. Last evening Grant sent another flag of truce to Gen. Lee requesting a specific flag of truce to bury the dead. This was gr
The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
From Gen. Lee's army. Battle-field near Gaines's Mill June 7-5 P. M. --My telegram last night should have read Early followed the enemy two miles, and not ten. After going this far, and finding the enemy entrenched behind Totopotomy Creek, with the swamp in their front, Early did not go further.--The condition of affairmains unchanged to-day. The enemy is still in front of Hill and Anderson, but is reported moving to-night. Last evening Grant sent another flag of truce to Gen. Lee, asking permission to bury his dead. This was granted, and the time set from 7 to 10 o'clock last night.--Grant did not get the answer in time, and so the dead g permission to bury his dead. This was granted, and the time set from 7 to 10 o'clock last night.--Grant did not get the answer in time, and so the dead are not buried. Grant sent to Gen. Lee another flag of truce this morning, for what purpose has not transpired. There has been some picket and battery firing to-day.
The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Butler's operations on the Southside. (search)
nt of our army south of Richmond — that is, Petersburg. This place could have been easily taken immediately after Gen. Butler's landing at Bermuda Hundred, and, being on the south side of the Appomation river and the junction of several railroads, would have been a place of vast importance to us. Petersburg would have been a splendid base for any operations Gen. Butler wished to make, and his army would have been safe there. Then he would have cut off a very important channel of supplies to Lee's army, and from thence, with the assistance of our gunboats, he could have cut off all reinforcements and supplies coming from the South toward Richmond. The statement that the battle of the 16th was only a feint to cover the small cavalry raid of Kantz, is too contemptibly absurd to need refutation. No one will be deceived by it. Gen. Butler's campaign south of Richmond is ended, and candor must admit, though with regret, that it was a failure, and a failure attended with great loss o
The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Yankee Exultation. (search)
Yankee Exultation. --A rich scene took place in the Yankee Methodist Episcopal Church, North, lately, upon the announcement of Gen. Lee's surrender to Grant. The following explains the matter: Philadelphia, May 13.--Near the close of the session the Rev. Col. Moody arose and stated that a telegram had been received that Lee had surrendered to Grant with 40,000 men. A scene then took place. Ladies in the galleries and the gentlemen in all parts of the house united in a perfect rr: Philadelphia, May 13.--Near the close of the session the Rev. Col. Moody arose and stated that a telegram had been received that Lee had surrendered to Grant with 40,000 men. A scene then took place. Ladies in the galleries and the gentlemen in all parts of the house united in a perfect rush or stamps, waving of handkerchiefs, &c. Quiet was finally restored, and the body after the giving of notices, adjourned with the doxology and benediction from Rev. Mr. Jewitt, of Rock river.